Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species
Author
Barbosa, Diego N.
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
text
Zootaxa
2018
4416
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1
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journal article
30136
10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1
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Anisepyris texanus
(
Evans, 1965
)
(
Figs 22L
; 23D; 23H;
23I
)
Rhabdepyris
(
Trichotepyris
)
texanus
Evans, 1965
, 133: 93–95.
Anisepyris texanus
(
Evans, 1965
)
. Combined by
Waichert & Azevedo, 2009
, 2284: 23.
Redescription, female.
Body length
4 mm
. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, angled, with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons
coriaceous
; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly
coriaceous
; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous.
Genitalia.
T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv as long as genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, smoothly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender, angled, and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv strongly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv strongly curved forward.
Redescription, male.
Body length
3.6 mm
. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible slender, curved, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short. Frons
coriaceous
. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc shorter than wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia spinose.
Genitalia.
Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with basal portion angled, glabrous; basivolsela with inner margin angled; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus basal portion convex and wide, apical portion longer basal portion and slender; apodeme wide.
Material
examined.
Holotype
,
♀
, [
U.S.A.
],
Tex
[as]
,
Big Bend Nat
[ional] P[ar]k,
The Basin
,
Chisos Mts.
, 5400',
8–14.VII.1948
, visiting oak honeydew,
H. E. Evans
col. (
MCZH
, #30941)
.
Allotype
,
♂
,
MEXICO
,
Sin
[aloa].
8 mi
.
SE Elota
,
19.V.1962
,
F. D. Parker
col. (
MCZH
)
.
BRAZIL
,
Espírito Santo
,
2 ♀
,
Santa Maria de Jetibá—Faz
[enda]
Paulo Seick
,
20°02'31.1''S
40°41'51.3"W
,
29.xi–06.xii.2002
,
Armadilha Malaise, M.T
.
Tavares, C.O
. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col[etores] (
UFES 29602
; 29907).
Distribution.
U.S.A.
:
Texas
;
Mexico
;
Brazil
:
Espírito Santo
.